"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."

Lie, Lies, Living, Now, Present

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"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now."

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars."

David Antin, American Poet

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"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us."

Leverett Saltonstall, American Politician

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"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically."

Diane Ackerman, American Poet

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"Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too."

Terry McAuliffe, American Politician

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Want

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."

Beauty

"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness."

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"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."

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"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

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"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."

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"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer."

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"After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood."

Beauty

"Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars."

Adventure

"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."

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